Radio Queen's University, CFRC 101.9FM
Operated by Radio Queen's University, CFRC 101.9FM is Kingston’s only campus and community radio station!
Radio Queen's University is a not-for-profit, volunteer-powered media outlet that fills the gap in music and locally-driven news and topical spoken word content not covered by the mainstream media -- offering diverse music and spoken word programming 24/7: over the air at 101.9FM in the Kingston area and worldwide on-line.
Screenshot of Program Schedule page
The challenge
As a radio station licenced in Canada, CFRC needs to keep accurate logs of each radio show. As part of their website refresh, CFRC wanted to have an easier way of entering these logs. Also as part of the project, they were wanting to be able to easily manage their program and schedule to be displayed to visitors to the site. Finally, wanted a radio player that would play the current show with the name of the show displayed.
As the radio shows are created by volunteers, making the entry of logs as easy as possible was a priority.
The solution
Northern Village developed an web app that allows CFRC to manage their CRTC and SOCAN logs, as well as their programs and schedule.
The basis of the app are the programs. A schedule is added, and volunteers can enter their logs for each program they host. There is also a link to archives, so that past broadcasts can be listened to from each program page. A radio player was also created to take the live stream of the station and play it through the app, or the website.
The software was created in a way, that it could be made available to other community radio stations throughout Canada. See RadioApp.ca for an overview of this software.